trough

watering trough (noun 1)

Meanings

Noun

  • A long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals.
  • Any similarly shaped container.
  • A short, narrow canal designed to hold water until it drains or evaporates.
  • A gutter under the eaves of a building; an eaves trough.
  • A channel for conveying water or other farm liquids (such as milk) from place to place by gravity; any ‘U’ or ‘V’ cross-sectioned irrigation channel.
  • A long, narrow depression between waves or ridges; the low portion of a wave cycle.
  • A linear atmospheric depression associated with a weather front.

Verb

  • To eat in a vulgar style, as if from a trough.

Related

Similar words

  • manger (container for feeding animals)

Origin

  • From Middle English trogh, from Old English troh, trog, from Proto-Germanic *trugą, *trugaz (compare West Frisian trôch, Dutch trog, German Trog, Swedish tråg), from Proto-Indo-European *dru-kó (compare Middle Irish drochta ("wooden basin"), Old Armenian տարգալ ("ladle, spoon"), enlargement of *dóru). More at tree.

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